But is there a site for....."Well I did what it said but it still isn't working" ? That'll be where most folks will be wasting their life away, lol. BTW, the majority of the population doesn't know how to follow instructions so a site to help with that would help a lot.

PC's are really easy to build, most people are scared thinking about it but its sooooo simple. Theres a couple tricks to master, sure... but overall one can be built in a little over an hour, depending on OS load times.

I've been working on building a case for my home server. neon, do you have anything for that?

Right now, I'm using the metal enclosure from an old dvd player and a bunch of double sided sticky foam tape. I've got an unused space in my cabinets that I am going to hang it from. I'll take some pictures later.

I just bought a new PC. I got a Lenovo tower with a quad core Pentium, 8 Gigs of Ram, 600 Gig HD, and a smokin' video card. Anyway, I got it from UPS, plugged it in and it gave me the blue screen of death and failed to startup.

After fiddling around with it for 2 days, it turned out that the video card had somehow wiggled just loose enough during shipping to not be fully connected. Can you believe that? Brand new PC too!

lol, freaking case drew blood. The step in between was a xanax break and some bandaids.

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yup. I normally go for an Antec case. I think they generally have pretty smooth edges. The last case I used was a piece of metal from the top of a DVD player, foam floor mats, and about 10 hot glue sticks.

I just built my first PC. I researched the holy hell out of it and was still extremely intimidated while doing it. Looking back now it was relatively easy and I don't think I'll ever purchase another pre-built PC again.

But is there a site for....."Well I did what it said but it still isn't working" ? That'll be where most folks will be wasting their life away, lol. BTW, the majority of the population doesn't know how to follow instructions so a site to help with that would help a lot.

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Yeah, I've built a few PC's in my day, and it isn't always as simple as plug it all in, turn it on, load the OS, and you're good to go.

I used to ALWAYS build my own PC's & PC's for others. Desktops are so cheap now nobody asks me to build them and all I use are laptops now.

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The HD on the last computer that I built crapped out after 6 or 7 years... The computer was still adequate for basic computing, and it only cost me about $300 to build, so I told my friend if he bought a new HD for it, I'd give it to him... It's still kicking. I researched building a new one for myself at the time, and wound up buying a refurbished Dell XPS desktop for $400, because it would have cost me just as much to build one myself with the same specs... It had a Core 2 Duo processor, 2x500GB HD in a Raid 0, 2GB of RAM, tuner card, and a crappy 'silent' NVIDIA video card without a fan, which burned up pretty quickly. I swapped out the video with a 9800GTX that I got for $100 and it's been great.